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commencement at Leesville, 8. c..
Exeellent-.-HighlyG Gratifying.

Leesville has been the site of busy
throng for the past few days. People
have been here from every direction to
take part in the Ninth Annual Com
mencement of the Leesville English and
Classical Institute under the manage
ment Prof J. G.. Baird.
Wednesday was devoted to examina-
tions in Arithmetic, Latin, Algebra,
Geography, Grammar and so on. These
examinations evinced thorough training
and ripe scholarship. Wednesday night
the spacious hall was crowded to hear
the speeches of the smaller scholars and
witness the "Flag Drilr'-a company
composed of sixteen young ladies of the
school. The young ladies dressed in pure
white with pink caps presented quite an
imposing appearance. Their movements
in manual and march were fine indeed.
This exercise is taught in the place of or
dinary calisthenics. It is useful and
interesting exercise. The little fellows
acquitted themselves in a manner quite
creditable to teachers and pupils.
Thursday we were favored with some
excellent examinations in the higher
branches. Col. Leitner and Gen. YOU
mans spoke of them in an especially
complimentary manner. After these
Rey. J. S. Moffatt, of Chester, Col. Lett
ner and Gen. Youmans favored the large
audience with the finest addresses to
which it has ever been our pleasure to
listen. We will attempt no outline.
Long may they live to voice and practice
the noble and sublime sentiments to
which they here gave utterance.
Thursday night quite large audience
re-assembled to hear the orations and es-
says of the Senior department. Each
one did we'll, so we'll as to have done
honor to any institution. At the close of
this exercise Mr.. Stevenson and Miss
Aycock on the part Of schoolmates pre-
sented Prof. Baird with handsome ice
pitcher as token of their high esteem.
Thus closed most enjoyable occasion.
The next session opens with full
corps of teachers on first Monday in
September. Those looking for places to
educate their children, would do we'll to
consult the advantages of this institu-
ton. ONE WHO SAW AND HEARD,
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PURE READING.-The taste for pure
reading can not be too early cultivat-
ed. The careful selection of books for
the young, and watchful supervision
of their reading matter, can not be too
strenuously impressed upon parents
and teachers. Books are to the young
either a SAVIOR of life unto life, or death
unto death either communicating or
purifying, or weakening, or strength
ening to the mind of the reader.
If the first aim of a public school
system is to make men better workers,
the second should be to make them
thinkers, and to accomplish this,
young minds must be brought into cor
respondence with the thoughts and
works of the great men of the past
and of to-day.
Nine-tenths of what they have
learned, as arithmetic, algebra, geom-
etry and geography, will pass away as
the cares of life come upon them.
But the taste for pure reading, when
acquired, will never pass away; it
will be of use every day and almost
every hour; they will find it a refuge
and a solace in the time of adversely,
and be happy when others are sad ; it
will spread from the father to the third
and fourth generations.
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Ground Of Hope.

"Julia, have you q hope ?" said a
minister to a timid but thoughtful
girl who professed to have been recent
ly converted.
"Yes, sir, I have" was her prompt
answer.
"What do you hope for?" said the
minister.
"Why, sir, I hope for salvation in
heaven,n was her answer.
"-Nhat right has a sinner like your
self to hope for salvation in heaven ?'
said the minister, with an assumed
tone of some severity.
The little girl, embarrassed by both
his manner and the matter of the
question, hesitated moment as to the
answer, and then said, II believe in
Christ, and he has promised to save all
who believe in him; and l ought to
believe that he will be just as good as
his word, and I do go believe"
It is for the sake of this last answer
that we have told this story. 1t hits
the point exactly. There is not a the
ologian in the land that can in better
or clearer words give the theory of
Christian hope. Believe in and on
the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, and
then fully believe him in the promise
which he makes to the believer; and
the problem of hoping for salvation is
at once completely solved. He who
believes in Christ, and then doubts
whether he will be saved, either
doubts his fidelity.to his promise, or
he doubts whether he has himself be-
lieved in him. His salvation by
Christ is just as certain as his faith in
him. Believe in him, and then hope
him.
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COAL ASHES FOR VINEs.-A cor
respondent in Vck's Magazine for
March says: "Twenty years ago |
planted vines in my yard, where !
had to do good deal of filling in, and
the material employed was principally
coal ashes. Wherever the ashes came
in contact with the vines we had the
largest crop of the finest grapes ever
saw, the roots seemed to run riot in the
soil at distance of ten to fifteen feet,
and were a mass of fine fibers. The
grapes were in large lunches that
crowded each other for room, fine,
plump, thin-skinned berries, while
fruit on vines from the same aged cut
tings, from the same parent vines
planted in the natural soil, were late,
hard and sour. My varieties were
Concord, Catawba and Ives Seedling.'
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Commencement exercises of Wesleyan
Female College opened on Friday eve
ming, 10th inst, the Sophomores giving
their reading. Near the close of that eve-
ming the art class, through DR.. Smith,
presented to President Bass fine por-
trait of himself, the joint work of the
class. On Sunday, June 2, at Mulberry
Street Methodist Church, DIR. Morgan
Galloway, of Emory College, preached
the Commencement sermon. On the
evening of the same day the College Mis-
sionary Society held its anniversary
meeting. The Junior exhibition occur
red on Monday morning, and at night
seventeen members of the Senior Glass,
the first section, read their essays.
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Christian Neighbor.
BY REV. SIDI III. BROWNE,
OF the South Carolina Conference
Righteous Anger.

There is an anger called righteous an
ger-how much of that passion which
moves US is OF this high character?
Righteous anger! a holy Indignation
what do these phrases imply? They OF
necessity include jealousy for the hon
or of God, a tenderness for the spirit OF
our fellow creatures, and also mercy
toward the brute creation.
We are jealous for the honor of those
we love. Loving God now can one wit
ness the desecration of His house, hear
the guilty use of His sacred name, or
know the countless means of dishonor-
ing His mercy, His judgments, His in
finite power, except he feel righteous
indignation against the sinful perpetra-
ton of these acts There rises instinct
lively desire to reprove the rash insult
to the object of onc's love-an impulse
in which, perhaps, there predominates
the feeling of injury toward God rather
than the sense of the ignorance and
weakness of the guilty.
The same feeling in a lower degree
takes possession of a high mind and a
holy heart when called upon to witness
the disregard of the rights and necessi-
ties of the weak and lowly among our
fellow creatures. The disregard Of the
sensibilities of our fellows is only less
brutal exhibition of the savage custom Of
torture at the stake or roasting over a
slow fire. 10 make one feel as deeply as
can be small obligation, to show one
how difficult it has been to confer upon
him small favor, to speak slightingly
before another of principles he may hold
dear-true we might call the belief in
those principles mere prejudice-yet to
witness these offences must rouse right
eous anger in every noble heart.
And shall we exclude the brute crea-
tion-those innocent creatures on which
we are dependent for many comforts and
even necessities of daily life? Only the
most degraded mind takes pleasure in
giving pain-common humanity con-
demns cruely to brutes-yet even greater
must be the indignation felt by a true
child of God on seeing, as he must, the
very general Indifference to the comfort
and health of those domestic animals
that are found in the service of men.
The wanton neglect of the needs of these
creatures-food, water, shelter, rest
makes strong indignation weak ex-
preston of the passion we feel to behold
the silent sufferings of these creatures Of
His handiwork. Will not He avenge
them speedily?
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Milk AS A STIMULANT.-Milk
heated too much above 100 degrees,
Fahrenheit, loses for time degree
of its sweetness and density. No one
who, fatigued by over-exertion of
body and mind, has ever experienced
the reviving influence of tumbler of
this beverage, heated as hot as it can
be slipped, will willing forego a resort
to it because of its being rendered
somewhat less acceptable to the palate.
The promptness with which its cor
dial influence is felt is indeed surpris-
ing. Some portion OF it seems to be
digested and appropriated almost i'm
mediately, and many who now fancy
they need alcoholic stimulants when
exhausted by fatigue will find in this
simple draught an equivalent that will
be abundantly satisfying and far more
enduring in its effects.
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A M0ckery.

"On earth peace, and goodwill
among men! 7" What a mockery it
seems to echo the words with which
angels saluted the birth of our Lord,
when Europe is swarming with armed
men: when partisan journals are filled
with envy, hatred, malice and all un-
charitableness; when the volume
which describes the real condition OF
the poor is written within and with
out with mourning and lamentation
and woe; when the name of Christ is
used to Justify deeds which express the
very spirit of anti-Christ: From this
point of view there is only too much
ground for the awful impeachment OF
official Christianity contained in the
most terrible line that Tennyson ever
wrote:
"The churches have killed their Christ"
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Carpet Sweeping.

In all carpet sweeping great care
must be taken to brush " ell round the
skirting board. This is the favorite
spot for the moths to breed. Should
you suspect their existence, lay wet
cloth, folded about three inches wide,
on the carpet round the skirting board,
and on this press a very hot iron. The
steam caused by this process will kill
both moth and eggs, and there need be
no fear of injuring the carpet. I have
said aUet cloth, because.I I mean more
than merely damp, but it must not be
dripping wet. A cloth wrung out of
water as dry as you can will be right.
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Peace PRINCIPLES are good in the

Peace principles are good in the
heart, in the home, in the church, in
the neighborhood, in the county, in
the state, in the nation, and between
nations. Peace principles must be
very popular in heaven, here the
Prince of Peace reigns. They are pop
ular on earth with all those who love
the Prince of Peace, and who obey the
Injunction of the Apostle, "Let the
same mind be in you that was in the
Lord Jesus Christ" Brethren, think
seriously of another Apostolic state
ment, eff any man have not the spirit
of Christ, he is none of his"
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Go ON.-Arago, the French astron-
omer, tells, in his autobiography, how
in his youth he one day became puz-
zled and discouraged over his mathe-
mates, and almost resolved to give up
the study. He held his paper-bound
textbook in his hand. Impelled by
an indefnable curiosity, he dampened
the cover of the book, and carefully
unrolled the leaf to see what was on
the other side. 1t turned out to be a
brief letter from D'Alembert to a
young man like himself, disheartened
by the difficulties of mathematical
study, who had written to him for
counsel. This was the letter: "Go on,
sir, 20 on. The difficulties you meet
resolve themselves as you advance.
Proceed, and light will dawn and
shine with increasing clearness upon
your path"
Arago followed the simple sugges-
ton, $50 on, sir, 60 on" and became
the first astronomical mathematician
of his age.-Christian Advocate.
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Died.

Mr.. J. S. Rawls, Clerk Of the Market,
Columbia, died June 16, 1887, aged "a.
Mrs. Eaddy, wife Of w. Capers Eaddy,
Williamsburg county, died June 4, 1887.
DIR. T. J. league, a prominent physi-
clan and druggist of Johnson, aged 81
years, died on the 10th inst.
Capt. Geo. w. Shingler, of Roadville,
Berkeley county, S. c., died on Sunday,
June 5th, about sixty-two years of age.
Died in Columbia, June IL, 1887, Mrs.
Mary A. McGregor, widow of the late
DIR. p. G. McGregor. Mrs. McGregor
had lived seventy-two years, and had
seen five of her children-severalo of them
adults-pass to the world beyond. This
estimable Christian woman leaves holy
heritage to her remaining children, re-
Her death was sudden, though she had
been indisposed for several days. She
passed away while quietly sleeping. A.
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1t is remarkable fact, not generally
known, that in Ethiopia people num-
bering about 200, 900 have the Old Testa-
ment in an Ethiopic version, and still ad-
here rigidly to the Mosaic ceremonies and
laws. They are the children of Hebrew
Immigrants who in the time of the dis
persion settled in Abyssinia and married
wives of that nation.
DIR. o. P. Fitzgerald is to write the life
of DR.. J. B. McFerrin at the request OF
the family.
The women of the Presbeterian Church
in sixteen years have raised S., l5O, 900 for
missions.
Yellow fever has broken out in Key
West, Fla.
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Reverie is allowing the thoughts to
come and goas they may. 1t is spe
cies of mental drunkenness-not only
useless, but weakening. AS a relaxa.
tion it is not injurious, but as a habit
it is the foe of self-control and intel
lectual force. When indulging in rev.
erie we should be on the watch for the
bright and beautiful images which
often appear in the mental kaleido-
scope, and detain them long enough to
be able to recollect them for future use.
Do you really put half as much eff
fort into your Christian as into your
secular affairs?
Many are concerned at the shame
fulness of sin, that never lay to heart
the sinfulness of it.
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A ministry which shall apply itsel

A ministry which shall apply itself
in personal labor in "the streets and
lanes of the city," in "the highways
and hedges" of the country, instead of
only in the respectable atmosphere of
our meeting-houses, will find, as
George Fox found when he travelled
England through and through, that
in many places the Lord has people
prepared for Himself, people prepar-
Ell to receive the true teaching, and
will be told, as was George Fox al the
ton of Pendle Hill, that the Lord
chad great people to be gathered.
A cracked bell is not good to call
men together, nor is a minister of
cracked reputation fit to persuade 9TH
ers to holiness.
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From two Points of View

"Run out on the walk, and see If!
your papa is anywhere in sight," said
Mrs. Graves to her little son. The
child obeyed, and presently returned
saying, "Papa has just come around
the corner; L am going to meet him."
And away he ran, while Mrs. Graves
Went to put the oysters TO stew. *
The cat and dog, who had been rear
ed together and were great chums, lay
on the wolf robe before the fireplace. g
"How I do pity those poor crea-
tures!" sighed the dog as he stretched
himself and yawned.
"Who" said the cat as she licked
her left paw and rubbed her cheek
with it. 49,
"Human beings, to be sure" an
swered the dog.
"Why?" asked the cat. She was in
q very laconic mood just then. -
"Why, indeedW echoed the dog;
"reasons enough to be sure. Just
think how terrible it must be to de-
pend upon your eyes almost entirely
for every thing you know. Fully
minute Tor at least fifty-five seconds)
before our mistress asked about our
master, had scented his approach.
I knew he was nearing home. Yet
she and our little playfellow Willie
were obliged to see him on the street
before they knew he was coming. /
don't believe they have any sense Of
smell at ALL"
II am sure they have big enough
noses," said the cat, rubbing her paw
over her little pink pug. ~
"Then too" continued the dog,
"even when I have bad cold and my
keen scent is impaired, I can always
hear his approach long before she
does. Why, the house would have
been robbed the other night if I had
been q poor human being instead Of q
fortunate brute" -.
land how was that?" asked the cat.
ooh it was the time master was ex-
pected home on the midnight train.
+ was lying at the foot Of the bed
when I heard sound below. 1 bark
ed. Keep quiet! 1t is only your mas
ter said my mistress quite sharply;
but barked again, and ran out in the
hall. knew very we'll it was not my
master below; my ear and my nose
both told me a stranger was in the
house. And sure enough, as l went
down the stairs man ran out of the
front door which had been opened by
removing the lock. Why, if I were
human being, I should never dare
sleep wink They are the most de-
fenceless creatures in the world. l
pity them"
Later in the evening a friend drop
ped in to call upon Mr.. Graves:
"What intelligent eyes this animal
has! =" the gentleman remarked as the
dog sat looking in his face.
ayes; be seems almost human
sometimes" Mr.. Graves replied. ut
is q great misfortune such animals are
denied the privilege of speech. I pity
them often" . d" -
"Humph !" said the dog as he walk
ed away in disguststo where the cat
was sitting. almost human indeed! !!
I wonder who needs the most pity"
"It all depends on the point OF
view" said the cat. Actually q dog,
told me one day he pitied me for being
cat; the idea"
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The Murderers Of Gambrill.

JACKSON Mss, June 13.-At the con-
clusion of District Attorney Miller's ar.
gument in the case of Hamilton and
others charged with conspiracy and the
murder Of Gambrill, Chancellor Peyton
said that Hamilton and Eubanks were
not entitled to bail. Albrect he bonded
in $1,000. Hardy and Fegures will be
discharged.
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SCHOOLS.
When I was q Boy.

when was boy" the grandsire said
To the bright lad by his knee,
OF the victors crowned with fame read
Who triumphed on land and sea!
And through the years, from the deathless
page, =.
A summons has sounded long:
To youth, and manhood, and hoary age,
The message is this-'Be Strongr"
"When was boy" he paused and said
To the listener by his knee,
"Of the men who were as lights read
In dark worlds history!
They priced the truth and were loved of
God.
And no fear of man they knew:
And still, from the glorious heights they
trod, 80
The message is this-'Be Truev"
II. r. EASTWOOD.
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Prof. Max Muller, of Liepsic Universe
ty, has forty-two titles and honorary
suffiXes to his name.-Er.
About the best use the Professor can
make of this string of "honors" would be
to print few million copies OF same on
forty-two different colors of flashy paper,
all the titles on each slip with his name
at the head, and distribute them gratis
or at nominal price to the boys "of all
nations" for tails to their kites.
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Christianity dies when it ceases to
be aggressive. The pressure of heresy
or persecution, like the weight on the
arch, only makes it stronger; the in
difference and inactivity of the profess
sors, like the influence of the weather
on the arch, destroys it's cohesion and
insures its ruin; and therefore it is
that though more daring and resolute
attacks were never made on Christian
ity than in our own day, they yet af-
ford no ground for serious alarm, be-
cause the Christianity which Is assail-
ed was never so active as now.
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How many of you speak as courte-.
ously and pleasantly to your mother
as you do to your Sunday-school teach
er? This reminds us: we saw a youth
lift very gallantly young lady's drop
ped handkerchief from the floor, but a
little later he allowed his sister, very
ungallantly, to carry the umbrella,
Though he was quite careful to keep
the bigger share of it sheltering his
own person. Such things may be
only cases of forgetfulness, but it Is ra-
ther wonderful that they so seldom oc-
cur when the young lady is not a sis
ter.
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This very simple remedy of common
salt has cured many cases of fever and
ague. A teaspoonful taken in water,
and teaspoonful deposited inside
each stocking, next to the foot, as the
chill is coming on. This comprises
the whole of the treatment.
APPLE PUDDING.-Slice your ap-
pies thin, put them on deep dish,
and having made batter thin with
eggs, milk and flour, pour over them,
and bake in the oven.
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President Baird Of the Leesville En-
glish and Classical Institute will please
accept thanks for invitation given three
weeks since, to attend the Commence
ment exercises of the Institute which
took place June IA. Is, 16. We had hoped
to be present to enjoy the pleasures and
benefits of the occasion; but was too in
disposed to be elsewhere than at home.
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Nashville Christian, Advocate.)

When the suffrage is extended more
rapidly than intelligence, there is dan
ger to the body polite; when intellec-
tual culture goes beyond the moral de-
velopment of the people, the danger is
still greater. Deduction Learning
and Religion must 60 hand in hand on
their beneficent mission to the mil
lions of free America.
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At the recent Commencement Of the
Electic College. Sumter, S. c., Rev. J. O.
Wilson, of Trinity Church, Charleston,
delivered an admirable address on South
ern Womanhood. Southern women were
considered first as authors, second in
their social relations, third as wives and
mothers, and lastly in their relations to
the slaves. The address received we'll
deserved praise.